Publications

PluMA in the literature

Peer-reviewed publications describing PluMA and work from the BioRG group that depends on it.

2018

  1. Cickovski, T., Narasimhan, G

    Constructing Lightweight and Flexible Pipelines Using Plugin-Based Microbiome Analysis (PluMA)

    Bioinformatics, 34(17), pp. 2881–2888.

2016

  1. Cickovski, T., Aguiar-Pulido, V., Huang, W., Mahmud, S., Narasimhan, G

    Lightweight Microbiome Analysis Pipelines

    In Proceedings of International Work Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO'16).

P PluMA

Plugin-Based Microbiome Analysis is a lightweight, language-agnostic pipeline framework developed by the Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) at Florida International University.

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Funding

  • DoD Contract W911NF-16-1-0494
  • NIH 1R15AI128714-01
  • NIJ 2017-NE-BX-0001
  • Florida Department of Health
  • Alpha-One Foundation
  • NVIDIA
  • Florida International University
  • Eckerd College